Linguistics

Today’s post is a couple of Rogue Talents that’ll be more at home on the Rogue Alternate class I’m slowly working on, but should be fun for the classic Rogue to use too. These talents are intended to be both on the Unchained Rogue and classic Rogue list of Talents.

Novel Research (ex): When doing a forgery of 25 or more pages, the time taken is divided by 10 without affecting the DC. If the forgery is used while doing research on a topic, the user must use the lower of the Knowledge or Profession modifier being used or his Linguistics modifier to detect the forgery. By taking -10 on a Linguistics(forgery) check for a document added into a library, you can portray the forgery as an overriding source, which is generally treated as more relevant information than other sources that oppose it.

Forced Overthinking (ex):
Requires 4 ranks in 3 Knowledge skills or Bardic Knowledge as a 4th level Bard
In your forgeries, you write in small kinks that make your forgeries even more convincing to people trained in the subject. A creature trained in an applicable Knowledge, Profession, or Craft skill appropriate to the topic takes the ranks in the highest ranked appropriate skill as a penalty to his Linguistics checks to detect the forgery.

Field Primer (ex) :
You can take 24 hours and 50g to write a field primer on any creature that you succeeded on a monster knowledge check on. A creature that uses this can make a monster knowledge check on this creature, even if untrained. If the user is trained, he gains a +2 circumstance bonus on that check. In either case, the user only gains information pieces that you did not gain when you made the primer. A check made with a Field Primer cannot be used to make a Field Primer.

Picture Perfect Memory (ex) :
For up to 1 day per rogue level after doing research, any knowledge checks that you make benefit from the research. If you have a slotless masterwork or magic item that gives a bonus to Knowledge checks, you continue to gain that bonus for 1 day per rogue level, even if that item is not in your hands or on your person.